Pōhaku ku‘i ‘ai (poi pounder)

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
11-1706
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21110001706
Accession number:
Acc.587
Description:
Roughly of same type as Cat. No. 11-1705 (made of gray stone, decanter shaped, with markedly rounded bottom), but very crude affair. Edges chipped off.
Donor:
Mrs. Jackson R. Myers
Collection place:
Kauai, Hawaiian Windward Islands, Hawaiian Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Hawaii; Kauai; Kauai
Culture or time period:
Hawaiian
Collector:
Jackson R. Myers
Collection date:
1900-1917
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1922
Context of use:
Poi pounder.
Department:
Oceania
Dimensions:
height 5.5 inches
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pōhaku ku‘i ‘ai (poi pounder), accession number 11-1706, described as Roughly of same type as Cat. No. 11-1705 (made of gray stone, decanter shaped, with markedly rounded bottom), but very crude affair. Edges chipped off.

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